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Spotlighting IUPUI Success

The flu has met its nemesis

student success

Thanks to IUPUI bioinformatics master’s student Sandeep Shantaram and a team of student researchers, you may soon be able to forecast flu outbreaks on your phone. Their prototype app won the Biosurveillance Mobile App Development Intern Competition and is now being developed and tested. Shantaram says the app could help reduce the risk of epidemics or outbreaks, like Ebola.

An IUPUI education prepares you for life

alumni success

Kelley School of Business grad Marcus May proves that a degree from IUPUI does not determine your path in life—it prepares you for life. A former Jaguar basketball player, banker, filmmaker, and now playwright, May hasn’t given up any of his passions and is leading his own path to success. May tells students to “stick to what you want to do, because your dreams are your dreams.”

Alcohol and the brain: IUPUI investigates

health and life sciences

Should you really let T-Pain “buy you a drank”? Well, IUPUI researchers from the School of Science have received a $545,000 three-year grant to answer this question. With the help of undergraduate and graduate student researchers, they hope to uncover why the brain’s reward system is hijacked by alcohol causing feelings of pleasure. Researcher Christopher Lapish says, “There are many unknowns to explore and interpret.”